Deep Spiking Neural Networks with Resonate-and-Fire Neurons
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In this work, we explore a new Spiking Neural Network (SNN) formulation with Resonate-and-Fire (RAF) neurons (Izhikevich, 2001) trained with gradient descent via back-propagation. The RAF-SNN, while more biologically plausible, achieves performance comparable to or higher than conventional models in the Machine Learning literature across different network configurations, using similar or fewer parameters. Strikingly, the RAF-SNN proves robust against noise induced at testing/training time, under both static and dynamic conditions. Against CNN on MNIST, we show 25 N(0, 0.2) induced noise at testing time. Against LSTM on N-MNIST, we show 70 higher absolute accuracy with 20
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